Re: [PATCH 20/22] AIO poll

[Avi Kivity]

William Lee Irwin III wrote:

> William Lee Irwin III wrote:
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> > > I just did it for OLS. The answer is busywait. i.e. 100% cpu. This is
> > > because you can't use timeouts unless they're unified.
> > >      
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 08:24:18PM +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
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> > That's not a server.
> >    
>
> It accepted enough client connections and did enough work on behalf of
> its clients to qualify as such.
>
> Perhaps you have in mind that such a "solution" is inferior (which it is)?
>
>
>  
Yes. Sorry for being so terse. But busy-waiting isn't acceptable for 
anything more than a demonstration, or (extermely) special-purpose 
servers, like maybe embedded stuff.

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